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Functional programmers have been in a massive propaganda campaign to actively paint optimization not just as “usually not necessary”, but actually as a negative
by SubjectToChange 3y ago
Functional programmers have been in a massive propaganda campaign to actively paint optimization not just as “usually not necessary”, but actually as a negative thing.
Based on what? FP advocates like performance as much as anyone else.
They need this because the performance characteristics of pure functional programming is pretty dogshit.
Research languages like ATS show that functional programming doesn't come at the price of performance.
- wredue 3y agolol. No they don’t. The official line from /r/haskell is “all optimization is the root of all evil”. Nobody is going to use theorem proving languages for a lot of reasons, but actually, mostly cause functional programmers did themselves in with their other ridiculous propaganda campaign to declare that developer time is too expensive. If ATS is a pure functional programming language, then it by definition of how cpus work cannot be performant, although there may be some things it can match other languages (usually reads are not noticeably slower)
- tome 3y ago> The official line from /r/haskell is “all optimization is the root of all evil”. That claim doesn't match my experience at all. Can you give some examples of that attitude being demonstrated on /r/haskell?